Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Tendring · Region: Eastern
Explore Fox Street, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Fox Street map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Fox Street, Essex, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Fox Street |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Tendring |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.910767 |
| Longitude | 0.949434 |
| Place Type | Village |
Fox Street unfolds as a quiet collection of lanes where the Essex landscape stretches into a precise, understated geometry of hedgerows and fallow fields. It lies 2.6 miles north-east of Colchester (from Colchester: bearing 56°T, OS grid TM 029 276), and is situated north-west of Crockleford Heath village. Morning light often catches the silver surface of Ardleigh Reservoir, which sits just to the north, offering a vast, reflective stillness that dictates the pace of the surrounding countryside. To the east, the modest rise of John de Bois Hill provides a vantage point from which the low-lying terrain reveals its subtle, rolling contours. Beneath the canopy of the nearby Bullock Wood Sssi, the air thickens with the scent of damp earth and ancient timber, marking a boundary where human architecture retreats before the persistence of the woods. Fox Street maintains a stoic distance from the encroaching clamour of the nearby town, favouring the slow rotation of the seasons over the haste of modern life. The architecture here relies on the honest weight of brick and timber, structures that have learned to endure the winds blowing across the open Tendring plateau. In the quiet intervals between the passing of a tractor or a stray vehicle, the silence of the landscape feels heavy and absolute, as if the land itself were holding its breath.
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Explore Fox Street, Essex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.910767, 0.949434. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |